Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reassurance of being among one's own kind. * An immigrant from almost any country can depend on finding transplanted countrymen in the city. But there is also something appealing, it seems, about joining the larger swarm of immigrants in New York, of being on a patch that is in turn part of a patchwork quilt. Where practically everyone is an alien, no one is alien. "There is a feeling of cordiality," says Anand Mohan, a Queens College politics professor from India, "and, for us, a satisfaction in knowing that as immigrants in this city, we are not alone...
...happen. The collective infatuation with the puckered face of the Cabbage Patch Kid is finally faltering. Toy & Hobby World magazine recently reported that Coleco Industries' cuddly doll ($59.95) lost its position as the best-selling toy in the U.S., a title it had held for 16 months. The new No. 1 is Hasbro Bradley's plastic-and-metal toy robot series, the Transformers (average price...
Coleco disputes the trade magazine's findings, which were based on a telephone survey of 50 toy sellers. It claims still to be No. 1. But even if sales momentum has slowed, Coleco hopes to build an ever growing patch of ancillary products. Toy stores currently stock Coleco's Cabbage Patch doll pets ('Koosas) and infant dolls (Preemies). Coming soon: a doll-size fun fur, a pet pony and dolls dressed in foreign garb...
...final plan, however, allows the oil operators to continue taking all the write-offs immediately. While industry lobbyists still protested the impending death of the depletion allowance, some individual oil executives were pleased to fend off a much harder blow. "There is a lot of relief in the oil patch," said J.C. Walter Jr., chairman of the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association...
...encourage revolution--but somehow they have been made acceptable by being presented as menu items on the food-for-thought list. Learn all about feminism, Marxism, and liberation theology--but beware of taking them seriously; you never know who'll laugh at you. Harvard is full of Cabbage Patch Radicals--most people don't really take them seriously, but they invite a couple of Cabbage Patch Radicals to their parties anyway...